Game control



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GAME CONTROL Filed April 25, 1928 2 Sheng-sheet 1 ATTORNEY WITNESS:

28, i929@ Q ASHBURN L7l439 GAME CONTROL Filed April 25, 1928 2 Sheets-'Sheet 2 Submc 5H NumberI Fxorn Large. le Sar-ne y I Nmber o6 Moves A5 l Remainder INVENTOR Mg BY m ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Patented May 28, 1929.

UNITED STATES JAMES GILBERT ASHBURN, OF WINSTON-SALEM. NORTH CAROLINA.

GAME CONTROL.

Application filed April 25, 1928'. Serial N'o. 272,832.

This invention relates to control devices for gaines and the like. l

An object of the invention coinprehends a housing provided with a multiplicity of rotatable elements.

Another object of the invention comprelieuds sight openings in the housing having communication with the respective rotatable elements.

A further object of the invention consists of legends carried upon the rotatable elements and exposed through the sight openings.

An additional object of the invention einl5 bodies the provision of openings in each of the rotatable elements adjacent the legends therefor whereby a stylus may be inserted to facilitate simultaneous rotation of the elements.

A cai'dinal advantage of the inventionis manifest by the provision of legends of di-fferent characteristics and Which may be qualified by exponents of different values.

Vt'ith the above and other objects 1n view,

25 the invention further consists of the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated inthe accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

-In the drawings Figure l is an elevation of the invention partly broken away to illustrate the airangenient of the rotatable elements.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional View taken on line. 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is illustrative of the iespective rotatable elements.

Figure 5 is an elevation of a modified form of the invention.

Figure 6 is an elevation of an additional modification of the invention. I

Referring to the drawings in detail, where- 45 in like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a relatively flat housing provided with a. rivet or eyelet 11 centially thereof to provide the pivot mounting for disk members 5o 12, 13 and 14 respectively.

As illustrated in Figure 4 of the drawings, the disks are of different sizes and disposed in superimposed relation.

Each of the disks are provided with eir- '15 cumferential rows of openings 15; the disk 12 is provided with twenty-three holes, the disk 13 with twenty-four and the disk 14 with twenty-iive holes. Said holes are adapted for registration with legends 1G carried ad jacent the marginal edges thereof.

The housing 10 is furthermore provided with sight openings 1T, as illiistrated'in Figure 1 ofthe drawings, and which are adapted to permit exposition of the legends 16 carried upon the respective disks. The face of the housing 10 is furthermore provided with an spond in number to the legends to obviate duplication of a certain reading during 13,800 plays.

The invention is primarily designed ,to overcome the employment of dice and spinning arrows to control plays ormoves in different games.

As illustrated in Figure 5 of the drawings, a. modification of the invention is shown which employs only two disk members and the same are provided with numerals instead of legends and in this particular` form of the invention, the smaller number is substracted from the. larger and the remainder gives the number of plays or moves capable of being executed whereas iii the preferred forni of the invention, as disclosed in Figures 1 to 4 inclusive, a table is included on the face of the housing 1() giving the legends and the number of plays or moves permitted by each and combinations of legends and their numerical values.

In Figure 6 of the drawings, another modification of the invention is illustrated, which, after the manner of the preferred form, employs a multiplicity of disk members, and, as shown, the disk members are four in number and exposed through rect-angular sight openings instead of round ones as in thepreferred form.

If the four disk members in the Figure 6 modification were provided with 28, 29, 31 and 33 numerals or legends respectively, it would be noted that the device would not re peat until 830,676 plays had been executed.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its forni, proportions and minor llt) detailsof construction, and the right is herein reserved to nlake such changes as properly fall wlll'nn ille scope ot the appended clann.

Qllaving thus described the invention, what' is clained is \f.

A counting device comprising a housing having spaced aligned sight openings, disk members ol dii'l'erent sizes arranged in superimposed relation and rotatably mounted Within the housing` the disks being provided with different numbers of circumferentially arranged registering openings, legends carried 'upon the outer uncovered faces of the disks adjacent the peripheries thereof and radially disposed with relation to the openings therein to obviate duplication ofreadings over a certain number of plays, and the face of the housing having a curved slot through which a stylus may be inserted for reception Within the circumferential openings in the disk to change the reading at the sight openings. i In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JAMES GILBERT ASI-IBURN. 

